Mon 12 Jun 2006
Results for my Open Source Business Intelligence survey are now available. There were 26 responses. I presented the results at the EOS (Enterprise Open Source) Conference in NYC on June 6. A conference report will be available here soon.
Click to continue reading “OSBI Survey Results”
Sat 3 Jun 2006
My conference presentation slides for the Enterprise Open Source Conference were lost for a while, but are now available again on this site.
Tue 2 May 2006
There has been one single thing that I could not get out of my mind ever since I started entrenching myself in research about Open Source Business Intelligence for a conference talk. I am talking about what kind of products should be considered “Business Intelligence” in a wider sense, and what shouldn’t. I learned from Wikipedia that Howard Dresner coined the term “BI” in 1989 to “describe a set of concepts and methods to improve business decision-making by using fact-based support systems”. This is a fairly wide definition, but arguably, your operating system should not be included in this set of concepts and methods. Jasper Reports* should not, either.
Click to continue reading “A Report is a Report is a Report is a Report”
Mon 24 Apr 2006
Open Source Business Intelligence solutions are becoming serious alternatives to traditional proprietary licensed software with over 25 open source projects providing a wide variety of tools for data warehousing and full BI suites. The survey should answer the question if and how much of the overall market the Open Source products are about to claim. All logically valid responses will be counted in the survey. I will present the results at the First Annual Open Source Conference and Expo in New York City in June.
Thank you for your participation.
